Course may be subject to change.
Do you have a Educational Health Care Plan and are now ready to go into employment? Supported Internships could be potentially your next step.
Our Supported Internship will help you gain experience in a working environment. You will develop independence while on work experience for four days each week. While there, you will improve your communication skills, customer service skills, problem solving skills, time management, and independent living skills.
Developed to support young people, each bespoke internship is designed to meet the individual needs of a student.
This course is set up with 3 days a week being at your internship and 1 day at college.
Alongside your course you will work towards developing your maths and English and personal development.
Entry Criteria
No formal requirements for entry to this course.
Entry Criteria
Progressing students from New College Durham.
What are the next steps?
All applicants will be required to attend an interview prior to enrolment, a meet the tutor session will be then arranged for a later date.
Study Aims
The aim of the qualification is to equip young people with the skills they need to secure and sustain employment through learning in the workplace, with support from a qualified job coach.
Modules Studied
This course is set up with 3 days a week being at your internship and 1 day at college.
Times of Delivery
This course is set up with 3 days a week being at your internship and 1 day at college.
Any times indicated are based on current courses and may be subject to change in future years. Full timetables will be confirmed at the start of each course.
Teaching and Assessment
Assessment will be internally set and conducted through small assignments, portfolios and observation in the work place.
Maths and English
All learners who have not achieved a grade 4 in maths and English will be required to continue studying these until they achieve a GCSE grade 4 or Level 2 Functional Skills.
Placement
All learners who enrol on a Supported Internship will require a placement which they must attend 3 days a week.
Full time employment
